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nationally determined contribution prior to joining the Agreement, that Party shall be
considered to have satisfied this provision unless that Party decides otherwise;
23. Requests those Parties whose intended nationally determined contribution pursuant
to decision 1/CP.20 contains a time frame up to 2025 to communicate by 2020 a new
nationally determined contribution and to do so every five years thereafter pursuant to
Article 4, paragraph 9, of the Agreement;
24. Also requests those Parties whose intended nationally determined contribution
pursuant to decision 1/CP.20 contains a time frame up to 2030 to communicate or update
by 2020 these contributions and to do so every five years thereafter pursuant to Article 4,
paragraph 9, of the Agreement;
25. Decides that Parties shall submit to the secretariat their nationally determined
contributions referred to in Article 4 of the Agreement at least 9 to 12 months in advance of
the relevant session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to
the Paris Agreement with a view to facilitating the clarity, transparency and understanding
of these contributions, including through a synthesis report prepared by the secretariat;
26. Requests the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement to develop further
guidance on features of the nationally determined contributions for consideration and
adoption by the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Paris
Agreement at its first session;
27. Agrees that the information to be provided by Parties communicating their
nationally determined contributions, in order to facilitate clarity, transparency and
understanding, may include, as appropriate, inter alia, quantifiable information on the
reference point (including, as appropriate, a base year), time frames and/or periods for
implementation, scope and coverage, planning processes, assumptions and methodological
approaches including those for estimating and accounting for anthropogenic greenhouse gas
emissions and, as appropriate, removals, and how the Party considers that its nationally
determined contribution is fair and ambitious, in the light of its national circumstances, and
how it contributes towards achieving the objective of the Convention as set out in its
Article 2;
28. Requests the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement to develop further
guidance for the information to be provided by Parties in order to facilitate clarity,
transparency and understanding of nationally determined contributions for consideration
and adoption by the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the
Paris Agreement at its first session;
29. Also requests the Subsidiary Body for Implementation to develop modalities and
procedures for the operation and use of the public registry referred to in Article 4,
paragraph 12, of the Agreement, for consideration and adoption by the Conference of the
Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement at its first session;
30. Further requests the secretariat to make available an interim public registry in the
first half of 2016 for the recording of nationally determined contributions submitted in
accordance with Article 4 of the Agreement, pending the adoption by the Conference of the
Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement of the modalities and
procedures referred to in paragraph 29 above;
31. Requests the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement to elaborate, drawing
from approaches established under the Convention and its related legal instruments as
appropriate, guidance for accounting for Parties’ nationally determined contributions, as
referred to in Article 4, paragraph 13, of the Agreement, for consideration and adoption by
the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement at
its first session, which ensures that: